[theme-reviewers] GPL-Compatibility

Emil Uzelac emil at uzelac.me
Wed Jun 4 19:25:32 UTC 2014


Most definitely :)


On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Bass Jobsen <bass at w3masters.nl> wrote:

> http://pixabay.com/ has cc0 images
>
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> 2014-06-04 20:29 GMT+02:00 Afzaal <wordpress at thinkupthemes.com>:
>
> Timing is great! Just uploaded a new theme earlier today which contains an
>> image from unsplash, so I'll go ahead and change that asap.
>>
>> Is there a central place here where GPL image providers are listed? If I
>> remember correctly, there was a push a few months back to find places where
>> we could get GPL images.
>>
>> Thanks as always!
>>
>> Afzaal
>>
>>
>> Quoting Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me>:
>>
>>  Hey guys,
>>>
>>> I was thinking to write a post about it, but I chose the list instead.
>>>
>>> As I was going over some license *issues* with my very own work, it turns
>>> out that sites like http://unsplash.com/ are completely unreliable and
>>> probably not the best choice to use images from.
>>>
>>> The site itself does not have an explicit license, other than a line
>>> where
>>> it says "All photos CC0", which is definitely not enough.
>>>
>>> Should we "police" this? You bet!
>>>
>>> All right, so I took few extra steps and came to conclusion that the
>>> original license and the license http://unsplash.com/ advertise are
>>> different.
>>>
>>> In most cases the license are either not CC0, or they require a special
>>> permission by the owner and in some other cases released under CC and we
>>> all know that CC alone is not GPL-Compatible. Not to mention that sites
>>> lists images from people that don't even exist.
>>>
>>> When that special permission is granted the source needs to have that in
>>> writing, otherwise "All photos CC0" means nothing to us.
>>>
>>> Best example:
>>>
>>> http://500px.com/photo/69737425/hoi-an-vietnam-by-rafael-chiti?from=user
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Emil
>>>
>>
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